On Thursday 01 March 2007 11:01 pm, Nick Alexander wrote:
> On Mar 1, 3:25 pm, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > > > I'm also wondering what are the most common usage methods of SAGE:
> > > > 1)  notebook
> > > > 2)  command line sage prompt
> > > > 3)  file.sage or file.py scripts
> >
> > I actually use the notebook quite often now, especially when
> > debugging/timing code. The reason is that my inputs are still there (even
> > without going up and down the history) if SAGE crashes etc. I also love
> > the %sagex feature.
>
> Hmm... perhaps we should be thinking about moving that feature into
> the CLI then?  What is it that's so useful?

If you put "%sagex" at the top of an input cell, then the rest
of the cell is compiled by sagex.   In the CLI, one can do

sage: sagex("""
a bunch of code
""")

This obviously sucks, since editing multi-line chunks of code 
is not the strong point of a CLI. 

William

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